THE ATOM: Fallout from the Pole

Soviet propaganda has tried with some
success over the years to tar the U.S. as a villain for carrying out
nuclear tests and to whitewash the Soviet Union as a do-gooder for
demanding a nuclear test ban. In a speech last week, Atomic Energy
Commissioner Willard F. Libby demolished the Soviet
we're-on-the-side-of-the-angels pose. He pointed out that in
Octobersix months after the Soviets had won the plaudits of the
world's neutralists for piously suspending nuclear tests, and just
after the U.S. announced its decision to suspend tests for one yearthe
Russians had carried out at their Arctic test site...